Drones face a new set of challenges as scientists deploy the remote flying vehicles to create maps of sea ice in some of the most remote locations on Earth.
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A new computer program can decode what people are looking at almost as soon as they see the object, new research shows.
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Researchers using a brain model have recreated the processes that cause the initially smooth brain to get its characteristic folds and wrinkly appearance. The rapid expansion of the brain’s cortex causes it to swell, then crinkle.
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Forget the expression “nice guys finish last.” A new study finds that men who are concerned for the well-being of others in place of themselves may have a better shot with women compared to men who are just good-looking.
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Pregnant women are bombarded with advice about avoiding chemicals. Should they use mosquito repellants?
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Children born to women with obesity and diabetes may have an increased risk of autism, a new study suggests.
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The burnt eggshell fragments of an ancient giant bird have helped scientists solve a 50,000-year-old whodunit in Australia.
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Two species of tiny fungi from Antarctica survived an 18-month exposure to Mars-like conditions aboard the International Space Station, according to the study, which was published last month in the journal Astrobiology.
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The sonic booms that rattled residents of New Jersey up to Long Island, New York, yesterday may have been the result of flight testing of fighter jets at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Maryland.
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Love it when things go ka-blooey? Be sure you add a lot of heat.
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Using reminders on your smartphone could prompt you to get moving.
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The boom was followed by nine others along the Eastern Seaboard from New Jersey to Long Island, New York. The cause of the booms remains elusive, with NASA, a Naval airbase and the Federal Aviation Authority saying they aren’t responsible.
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As the mosquito-borne Zika virus continues to infect people in a relentless wave, there is a worldwide rush to learn more about the disease.
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A marriage contract signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and his first wife, Josephine, will be available for auction — just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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It was, by any measure, a giant and should be cause for celebration.
The post There’s Science Behind that ‘Jaws’ Sighting (Op-Ed) appeared first on Scout SEO.
In March 2001, the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, two of the tallest Buddha sculptures in the world. This forever changed the landscape of cultural preservation, archaeology and global heritage.
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A massive winter storm that slammed the U.S. East Coast last weekend dumped so much white stuff on the ground that the extensive snow cover was clearly visible from space.
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For a text that may rewrite the history of mathematics, it looks rather sloppy. A small brown clay tablet that’s scrawled with hasty cuneiform characters proves the ancient Babylonians used a complex geometrical model to calculate Jupiter’s path.
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It’s likely that the United States will face small outbreaks of Zika virus, but widespread transmission of the virus here is not expected, health officials said today.
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Thirty years ago today, NASA suffered a spaceflight tragedy that stunned the world and changed the agency forever. NASA astronauts had died on the job before, but the Challenger disaster was something different altogether.
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Long thought to be solitary predators, octopuses actually have social lives, ‘debating’ with each other by “standing very tall, raising the body mantle high above the eyes, and turning very dark,” according to David Scheel.
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A new study reveals that octopuses frequently communicate with each other in challenging displays that include posturing and changing color.
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The World Health Organization explains symptoms, treatments and how to prevent the mosquito-transmitted virus from affecting you. The virus has been alarmingly spreading across the Americas.
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Tasmania’s rainforest is burning up in the wake of its most severe two-year drought on record.
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The headless skeletons of men who were likely gladiators in life were found in a cemetery in York. Analyses of the bones has revealed much about the lives of these young men. Here’s a look at the decapitated bodies and excavation.
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The headless skeletons of young males discovered in York, England, likely belonged to gladiators. In addition to the violent injuries, the men experienced infections and stress as children, a DNA analysis suggests.
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An app that can study people’s facial expressions and emotional responses could one day be helpful in detecting autism signs in children, new research found.
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Faraday’s Law of Induction describes how an electric current produces a magnetic field and, conversely, how a changing magnetic field generates an electric current in a conductor.
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The Zika virus is spread by bites of infected mosquitoes. It can be particularly dangerous to fetuses and newborns.
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Oregon State University might want to consider changing its mascot after a monumental find yesterday: The discovery of bones belonging to an ice-age mammoth within throwing distance of its football field.
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Scientists are investigating how addiction affects the brain.
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Do you know what to do if a child passes out?
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The sculptures date to the first or second century AD and stand at around 21 inches in height.
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Archaeologists surveying an ancient cemetery in Israel say they have discovered 1,700-year-old inscriptions in stone that may mark the burial place of elite rabbis.
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A staggering 73% of young adults surveyed said they would put off going to the hospital, but would wait to see if they felt better.
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A throwdown between a rapper and an astrophysicist centers on whether the Earth is a sphere, a scientific question that was supposedly settled in the third century B.C. Here’s how we know it’s a sphere.
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Researchers have identified a gene that increases the risk of schizophrenia, and they say they have a plausible theory as to how this gene may cause the devastating mental illness.
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In the future, there may be a less invasive way than blood tests to obtain valuable information about a person’s health: wearable sensors that use human sweat to look for signs of disease.
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An artificial intelligence system has used “deep learning” to defeat a professional Go player, solving one of the landmark challenges in AI.
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Young women who use tanning beds or booths have up to a sixfold increase in their likelihood of developing melanoma, a new study found.
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The CIA recently released some of its older documents on unidentified flying objects.
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UC Berkeley engineers are building small, portable, wearable devices that can monitor levels of sodium, potassium, lactate and glucose within sweat on a user’s skin.
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A physicist uses math to take on some of the biggest scientific conspiracy theories, including the myth that the moon landing was faked and that human-caused climate change is not real. If these conspiracies were real they would’ve been uncovered by now.
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What are scientists planning to use to fight the Zika virus?
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Antibiotics called macrolides may change children’s gut bacteria, a new study finds.
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The global “Doomsday Clock,” which shows how close humans are to global catastrophe, is set to 3 minutes to midnight
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Is alcohol a mood booster?
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Mother Nature can’t take the blame for the recent string of record-breaking heat waves, a new study finds.
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The beetle mimic cockroach gives live birth, and one researcher from the University of Cincinnati figured out what was happening on the genetic level.
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Should you be screened for depression? Here’s new advice.
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The newly proposed “Planet Nine” probably could not have triggered the comet impacts that some researchers think may be responsible for many of Earth’s mass extinction events over the eons, astronomers say.
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Re-growing lost organs or body parts is beyond the scope of human biology. But in recent years, scientists have successfully cultivated a range of miniature organs and human body parts in laboratories.
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Despite the advent of new communications and support technology, going it alone in Antarctica is still an incredibly dangerous risk, one expert says.
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Scientists in China have developed a flexible, rollable, foldable battery inspired by traditional Chinese calligraphy involving ink on paper.
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Tegu lizards burn hotter than the average lizard when it’s time to create the next generation.
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Omnivores are the most flexible eaters of the animal kingdom; they eat both plants and meat.
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Gopher snakes are nonvenomous serpents that are often mistaken for rattlesnakes.
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These structures can imitate the way in which orchids, calla lilies and other plants bend and twist. This technology could one day help scientists heal wounds or be used in developing robotic surgical tools.
The post Shapeshifting ‘4D-Printed’ Structures Mimic Plant Movement | Video appeared first on Scout SEO.
A network of motion-activated cameras monitored by conservationists is capturing millions of photos of unsuspecting wildlife, helping scientists to glimpse the big picture of worldwide biodiversity in protected areas.
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Camera trap images represent birds and ground-dwelling mammals living in highly diverse ecosystems in protected areas.
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By mimicking the way orchids, calla lilies and other plants bend and twist, scientists have created shape-shifting “4D-printed” structures that they say could one day help heal wounds and be used in robotic surgical tools.
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These are the most common causes of death for children and teens around the world.
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A new species of daddy longlegs has been unearthed lurking on the forest floor in the mountains of Oregon, and it’s a relative beast compared to its close cousins.
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Researchers monitored the populations of 244 species in 15 forests in several counties. The study found that some species were actually increasing in population. Over 2 million images were taken, some shown here of the various species.
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Tian Tian, the Smithsonian National Zoo’s male giant panda, seemed delighted with the blizzard over the weekend, rolling around in the snow with giddy abandon.
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The odds of year-on-year record warming is 1 in 1,500 — can this really just be chance?
The post What Are the Odds? Temperature Records Keep Falling (Op-Ed) appeared first on Scout SEO.
A new study found that Venus flytraps track the touches of their prey, holding back after first contact to make sure that there’s definitely something tasty to nab.
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Many people would face the lowest risk of dying if their BMI was 26 — which is considered overweight, new research suggests.
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Iridescent cells in the flesh of giant clams could one day help scientists design more efficient solar panels, and television and smartphone screens that are easier on the eyes, researchers say.
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A carnivore is an animal or plant that eats the flesh of animals.
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NASA and NOAA have their satellite eyes on the powerful winter storm bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. East Coast this weekend, with the latest views showing the storm’s growth and progress through the afternoon.
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The new Hubble image depicts the star cluster Trumpler 14, a collection of about 2,000 young stars that lies 8,000 light-years from Earth, near the center of the Carina Nebula.
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Can a full moon make a winter storm even worse? Yes, scientists say. Here’s how.
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Eyes on the ground and above are capturing the immense size and intensity of the winter storm that is currently walloping the Eastern U.S. Here’s a look at those images.
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Migraine sufferers might benefit from using medical marijuana — a new study shows the drug might lead to fewer of the painful headaches, a new study suggests.
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Most people under age 45 would not go to the hospital if they were experiencing stroke symptoms.
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Garbage dumps may be such attractive pit stops for some storks that they shorten their migration routes to pay a visit, a new study suggests.
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The U.S. military wants you … to design a better atomic clock.
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It might be easy for life to evolve throughout the universe, but very hard for it to get any kind of a foothold, a new study suggests. This could be the answer to the famous Fermi Paradox, which in its simplest form asks, “Where is everybody?”
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Venus Fly-Trap plants (Dionaea muscipula) have hairy fibers to sense insect motion. The more the hairs a bug touches, the higher the likelihood the plant will eat the bug.
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Scientists have detected microbes in Greenland sea ice using a specially built digital holographic microscope, suggesting that the instrument could have similar success on icy moons in the outer solar system, if any of them harbor life.
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A new spider species wiggles its enormous paddle appendage in order to woo mates, research reveals.
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A mysterious 160-million-year-old crustacean had incredibly complex eyes similar to those of modern arthropods, a new study finds.
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A runny-nosed female walrus at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom had veterinarians concerned that she was suffering from more than just a common cold. As it turned out, the 22-year-old walrus, named Siku, was suffering from a parasitic infection.
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Veterinarians had to get creative to investigate the cause of a walrus’s runny nose.
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An herbivore is an animal or insect that only eats vegetation, such as grasses, fruits, leaves, vegetables, roots and bulbs.
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Global average temperatures in 2015 broke records, but a strong El Niño was only part of the story.
The post What’s Cookin’? Earth, Basically. But It’s Not El Niño’s Fault appeared first on Scout SEO.
Experts created the first national survey of Lyme-disease-carrying-tick distribution in decades, and found that the ticks are ranging farther north than before, and are now living in nearly 50 percent of all U.S. counties.
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By taking a 1-minute quiz, you can find out if you’re at risk for prediabetes. The quiz is part of a new public service campaign.
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A new fiber that mimics the electricity-producing cells in electric eels could be woven into clothing to power wearable devices.
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A satellite image shows a developing winter storm moving east toward the mid-Atlantic states.
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Lying among beetle specimens in museum collections across Australia was a treasure trove of unidentified weevils. Most had been collected almost 30 years ago and remained unnamed until scientists started cataloging them and stumbled across 24 new species.
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The worm lurked in the man’s intestines for two years.
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Apple’s forthcoming iOS update promises to incorporate a feature called Night Shift that could help people sleep better. But what is it about smartphones that can mess with our slumber?
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A winter storm seems poised to wallop the East Coast of the United States during the weekend of Jan 22-24. NASA’s Goes-East satellite has been monitoring its progress.
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Scientists have found evidence of a true ninth planet in our solar system. Nicknamed “Planet Nine,” the real-life Planet X appears to have the mass of 10 Earths and is 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune.
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The fancy frill and cheek horns that adorned the head of a triceratops relative may have helped the dinosaur communicate, possibly acting as a social or sexy signal, a new study suggests.
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The oldest of the old are living even longer, a new report shows.
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Kids whose parents have “unsecured debt” may have more behavior problems, a new study finds.
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People who use opioid medicines for pain may face a higher risk of depression, a new study finds.
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To prevent heart disease deaths, people may want to focus more on eating more unsaturated fat, rather than eating less saturated fat, a new study suggests.
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Worldwide temperature data from 1880 – 2015 has here been color-mapped and animated. 2015 – the warmest year for which scientists have data – beats 2014 (the previous record-holder) by .23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 Celsius).
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Two brothers hunting for ichthyosaur fossils along the coast of the United Kingdom came across something far more astounding: The bones of what may be the earliest known dinosaur from the Jurassic period in the U.K., and possibly even the world.
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The power source for Earth’s magnetic field may be magnesium minerals trapped in the core since our planet’s violent birth.
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The oldest known evidence of human warfare has been unearthed in Kenya, suggesting that warfare is an ancient part of the human repertoire.
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A possible planet – larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – orbiting the Sun once every 15,000 years, could explain the peculiar clumping of Kuiper Belt Objects in our solar system.
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2015 blew away the competition for record heat, besting 2014 by widest margin on record.
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Famous antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton may have had a hole in his heart.
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Tectonic plates may have inched across the Earth’s surface to where they are now over billions of years. But they left behind traces of their movement under the sea in bumps and gashes that researchers can map.
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Women who develop the skin cancer melanoma during pregnancy may have more aggressive cases of the cancer, a new study suggests.
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China’s frequently choking haze is providing an unexpected benefit to racing pigeons in one of the country’s most polluted regions, helping the birds to navigate home faster.
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People are more likely to survive cardiac arrest if they live below the third floor, a new study finds.
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Zinnias have opened their petals for the first time on the International Space Station, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly couldn’t be prouder.
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Some pregnant women who traveled to areas where Zika virus is spreading should be tested for the disease, health officials announced today.
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If the superhero Spider-Man were to climb walls like a true spider, he would need ridiculously enormous feet, a new study finds.
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A great variety of multi-legged creatures share our homes, and many of them aren’t pests at all.
The post Photos: 15 Insects and Spiders That May Share Your Home appeared first on Scout SEO.
You are likely sharing your home with hundreds of unseen arthropods — tiny accidental “squatters” that aren’t pests at all.
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Smoking pot doesn’t make teens any dumber, a new study finds.
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Older people who have lower levels of bicarbonate, a main ingredient in baking soda, in their blood may be at increased risk of premature death.
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Creating smoky clouds easily visible from space, the bushfire in Yarloop, Australia was wild and deadly at the beginning of January.
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Low-fiber diets may permanently reduce the diversity of microbes living in the human gut, new research suggests.
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In a recent lecture, Stephen Hawking once again warned that humanity could wipe itself out if it’s not careful.
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Tiny, wireless, electronic implants that melt away in the body could one day help doctors monitor the brain, new research in rats suggests.
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You can finally place an order for your very own Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. And it can be used for many applications besides gaming.
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The inscription names 20 Medieval killers allegedly involved in the murder of Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky.
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Sprawling hieroglyphs dating back around 5,000 years have been discovered in Egypt’s Sinai Desert. Carved into stone, the symbols reveal secrets of the early pharaohs, including a queen named Neith-Hotep who ruled Egypt.
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Photos reveal sprawling drawings and hieroglyphics that were carved into stone in the Sinai Desert more than 5,000 years ago, possibly by mining expeditions sent out by early Egyptian pharaohs.
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The yeast that brews up wine, beer and bread has sex in wasp intestines, say researchers who found the microbes hybridizing inside the insects’ guts. The finding could one day help unearth new industrially important strains of yeast, scientists added.
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The crash of ocean waves and the pitter-patter of rain on shingles — these sounds may lull a person to sleep. Part of the reason for agua’s dreamy effects lies in how the brain interprets noises as either threats or non-threats.
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In a rare case, an 11-month-old baby in Spain developed scurvy. Here’s a look at what happened.
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In the northwestern part of New Mexico, a natural outcropping of sandstone known as El Morro has produced a spectacular landmark in this cold, high desert region.
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When water is scarce, why not pull it out of thin air? An industrial designer in Austria is hoping to do just that (well, sort of).
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There are a slew of ways to define brief psychosis, but a new study finds no differences in prognosis among different definitions.
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Cereals are not just for breakfast — and with grain yields falling, expect to feel the impact.
The post Crop Failure and Fading Food Supplies: Climate Change’s Lasting Impact (Op-Ed) appeared first on Scout SEO.
Hurricane Alex marks the first time a hurricane has formed in the Atlantic in the month of January since 1938, and a NASA satellite got a gorgeous look at the menacing storm.
The post A Look at Alex: NASA Satellite Spies Oddball January Hurricane appeared first on Scout SEO.
The slashed and punctured bones of a woolly mammoth suggest that humans lived in the far northern reaches of Siberia earlier than scientists had previously thought, a new study finds.
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A new product called “Fontus”, that attaches to a bicycle, pulls moisture out of the air while a bike is moving. It condenses and drips water into a bottle.
The post New Bike Attachment Generates Water As You Ride | Video appeared first on Scout SEO.
Map showing the location of the fossil mammoth scientists say was killed by hunters.
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In photos: a microscopic worm can develop one of five specialized mouths best suited to its diet.
The post Photos: One Worm, Five Shape-Shifting Mouths appeared first on Scout SEO.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not over — just one day after the region was declared “Ebola-free,” a new case of the virus was confirmed in Sierra Leone.
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Depending on a microscopic worm’s environment and diet, it can develop one of five specialized mouths best suited to its living situation.
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Some 130 million years ago, a monster of a reptile, a 30-foot-long crocodile ancestor, once navigated the lagoons of the Tataouine region of southern Tunisia, the area where Star Wars’ Tatooine was filmed.
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Here’s a look at the 130-million-year-old remains of a monster-size crocodile ancestor and excavation at the site where Star Wars’ Tatooine was filmed.
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NASA is about to get up close and personal with Earth’s corals: The space agency will use airplanes and water instruments to survey these delicate structures and capture the most detailed views ever of the planet’s corals.
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Modern-day felines may be the ultimate mutts. Turns out, the ancestors of modern-day cats, from lynxes to the domestic Fluffy, interbred across species at many points in history, a new analysis of the feline family tree suggests.
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An a very unusual medical case, doctors removed a live worm from a man’s eye. Here’s what happened.
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The solar power industry continued its hiring spree in 2015, growing 12 times faster than overall U.S. employment.
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Older adults who don’t sleep as well may be at increased risk for changes in their brain, a new study finds.
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Three venomous sea snakes have washed ashore hundreds of miles from their normal home range. Though El Nino may be to blame for their odd appearances, scientists are puzzled over why they are stranding.
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An incredibly long-necked dinosaur, with leg bones the size of couches, is so massive that it has invaded not one, but two rooms at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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The cast of an enormous titanosaur skeleton will go on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Friday.
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Experts evaluate the threat posed by Zika virus, a denguelike illness that in recent months has spread rapidly across the Americas and has been linked to birth defects.
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The future is looking brighter for manatees — the gentle, roly-poly marine mammals once mistaken by sailors for mythic mermaids.
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A large lake and a gaping rift about as deep as the Grand Canyon but way longer may be lurking undetected beneath East Antarctica.
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West Africa is now Ebola-free, marking an end to the devastating epidemic that plagued the region for two years.
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A rare horrific plane crash with many survivors challenged the doctors at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
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The NOAA GOES-East satellite captured Hurricane Alex forming in the Atlantic Ocean from Jan 10th-14th, 2016. Atlantic hurricanes very rarely develop during winter months.
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Most of the U.S. presidents were born at home, and Ohioans and Virginians are disproportionately represented in the Oval Office, a new analysis finds.
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Some cancers are mysterious, in that doctors cannot determine where they originated. Now, it seems that some of these cancers are caused by HPV.
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An enormous gas cloud in the early universe has a very small amount of the heavy elements that would form in later stellar generations, suggesting that it was “polluted” by the very first stars.
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Smartphones equipped with portable devices that magnetically levitate cells might one day help diagnose diseases in the home, clinic or lab, researchers say.
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Black holes may have hair made up of zero-energy gravitons and photons, meaning they may preserve information, research suggests.
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A caloric increase is helping the oldest known living terrestrial animal in the world — a giant tortoise living on the tiny Atlantic island of Saint Helena — reclaim his health and vigor, a veterinarian reports.
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The age of first-time moms is on the rise.
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The Paleo Diet is a modern attempt to replicate the diet of humans of the Paleolithic age. These ancient hunter-gatherers lived before the advent of agriculture and subsisted on lean proteins, eggs, fruits, vegetables, nuts and roots.
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Mutations are alterations to a DNA sequence. They can cause diseases and conditions, but they are also tools in evolution.
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The math behind all the discussion of tonight’s Powerball drawing assumes true randomness – are those assumptions reasonable?
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The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 aircraft has found little trace of the vanished plane, but has turned up a 19th-century shipwreck.
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Skin cells have been reprogrammed into insulin-producing cells, which could one day help treat, or even cure, certain kinds of diabetes.
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The plague was brought to Europe by rats on ships. Or was it?
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Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi dating back at least 118,000 years suggest that an unknown lineage of toolmakers, relatives of the diminutive “hobbit” once lived there.
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Frogs of the genus Hylodes squeal, inflate vocal sacs, wave their arms and wiggle their feet and toes while courting their mates or warning their rivals.
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An outbreak of whooping cough in Florida was surprising to health authorities there — most of the people who got sick had been fully vaccinated.
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